We brought Angeline's kids up from Dano to see her. This was a bit of an ordeal since the Father didn't want to let them all go. Besides the sickness itself this is another very sad side to this story. If Angeline doesn't make it, the situation with the kids will become extremely complicated. Her newborn would normally go with her sister, but her husband doesn't want to take her. Of the three others, the father of the two oldest, Ezekiel and Bruce, isn't around and the father of the youngest boy, Amos shows a lot of favoritism to him when he's there, but for the most part isn't really there to raise any of them. Be praying that these kids find a loving home regardless how this turns out with Angeline.
The latest on Angeline is that she's day by day if not moment by moment. I'm now in Ouaga with her just to hold the nurses and interns hands at the public hospital to make sure that we might be able to keep her alive until we can find out what's really wrong with her. She's so sick none of the private clinics will take her. She's being held together only by him who holds us all together. The normal platelet range for blood is 150,000 to 400,000. Angeline had 4,000 today! . . . When I pulled into Ouaga, Dr. Peter explained to me she wasn't able to stop bleeding and needed platelets badly. I got to the hospital at 4 to find that the platelets that were supposed to be there at 3, hadn't arrived yet. I went to the "desk." The guy said they were waiting on somebody - he didn't know who, so I offered to go get them - why wait? After they sent us all over the hospital on a wild goose chase in the rain, we found out we needed to go down the street to the blood transfusion center where they ordered the platelets. I get there and they said that it was very late and they weren't sure if they would finish getting them ready today. I tried to explain the severity of the situation. They warned me that I might have to wait several hours, and I told them I would wait. Thirty minutes later I walked out with the platelets and within the hour Angeline had received 4 pouches of platelets. We still don't know what's eating up her blood. We're just trying to give her enough time right now to find out what the problem is. Praying for someone THIS sick is often hard. We sometimes don't know what to pray (should we pray for her suffering to end or for healing). When I see those kids I know what to pray. Remember when Sarah, the golden girl, heard the Lord promise that she would get pregnant, she laughed. Even most of the nurses and doctors at the public hospital here, if not laughing, are at least very doubtful and cynical. "She's a hopeless case," they think and so they let stuff go and don't see what the big hurry is to treat her. But as God said, "Why did Sarah laugh, is anything too hard for God?"
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